The 100th anniversary of the birth of her late Majesty Queen Elizabeth II

[George 1978]

It doesn't really count, but I was one of a few pupils from my school who were "extras" in a "far-away-in-the-background" playground scene for a BBC drama which was filmed on a Tuesday afternoon June 1991 - even our Headteacher was so interested in this, and as a result, he also...

[George 1978]

I met Leslie Crowther in 1987 when he came to open a new shop up (and me ad my father "came on down" to see him), and I also met Richard Bacon from Blue Peter, just before that scandal.

I am an autograph collector and I often give an illusion that I have met a lot of famous people...

[George 1978]

Not many people have sent birthday greetings to themselves; back on Guy Fawkes Night in 1990, Mr Bean in The Return Of was one of them with a blank birthday card that he had in his inner-jacket pocket when he was waiting to pretend to enjoy a raw steak tartare meal in a restaurant before being a bit...

[George 1978]

They do both seem to be passing phases of their own respective eras, although as you say, there are a lot of differences....

[George 1978]

Managed to get to the Orkneys, but then again, I have never flown by plane.

[George 1978]

The same time as school days - as a school refuser, I tried to get up just before midday, or mid-morning at least on school days as well because I hated the place....

[George 1978]

I have always thought that "Yuppie" was the "chav" of the late 1980s - no I wasn't one of them, but I was aware of them on TV and sometimes walking down the street. I blame series like EastEnders for glamorising them, hence I never watch. House brick-sized mobile phones, anyone?...

[George 1978]

With the portables upstairs they didn't have a remote so I had to get up to change channel, but the downstairs TV in the living room had a remote, and so I used it - in fact, when it needed to be replaced in the 1990s I got a One for All remote control from Argos and used that instead with a little...

[George 1978]

I didn't think that Newsround would actually report on someone's execution; I thought that they catered for viewers who were more sensitive to such things....

[George 1978]

My local rag as well - because it has local news on it....

[George 1978]

German: mostly because: A) Our Languages teacher was German by birth and so thus it was her mother tongue; and B) Our school was twinned with another in Germany.

[George 1978]

The telephone was also in the hallway at the bottom of the stairs - I suppose it was a convenient position to have it in in case one gets an urgent phone call and need to rush out straight away.

[George 1978]

I used to skip breakfast in case I was late for school but I used to have it at weekends and holidays.

I went home for dinner however, and had a Pot Noodle or something like that, and in the evening, it varied depending on what day of the week it was....

[George 1978]

Four (or five if you count a computer channel in the mid 1980s, or a VCR channel four 1989 onwards). I used to buy different portable aerials and signal boosters to get extra ITV regions without much success.

Then in 2000 I got cable for the first time and I received over 100 of them....

[George 1978]

And to think that they only celebrated Christmas once.

Mondegreens are what misheard song lyrics are called. I have mentioned this before; Kate Bush's Wuthering Heights mentioned "roll and fall in wee" which is what I thought Bush was singing for many years....

[George 1978]

Also, I think that from the 1980s onwards, the ratings issues for Coronation Street were such a huge thing (advertising revenue and all that) was the reason why the BBC fought back with that EastEnders thing that they launched. The problem is that the number of episodes increased in the late 1980s and...

[George 1978]

It's difficult to speculate something which probably would never have happened, but what I do know is that the terrestrial TV schedules would have more variety and choice as it did in the 1970s and 1980s, and I think that the increase in episodes of soap operas have diluted the quality of the way other...

[George 1978]

Even I forgot about that Maxwell House advert myself until a couple of months ago when I saw it on YouTube, and the man in the advert immediately made me think about this thread - it does feel of its time of the mid 1990s. At least we had Edmonds and not Mr Blobby making a cameo appearance....

[George 1978]

The classic ITV Schools programme Good Health from 1983 did a programme about Germs, and what do we get to see our young performer sing just before she is set down by the lurgy?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zD7YM8FZ7M...

[George 1978]

Goes down in history as being one of the longest words, along with "supercalifragilisticexpialidocious" and also "Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysili ogogogoch"....